Skirt-hanger.



PATENTED 001.30, 1906.

0.1?. BLUE. SKIRT HANGER.

. 2211101111011 FILED APB. a, 1905. Bmmwnp SEPT. 29. 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE E. BLUE, or WILKEs-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SKIRT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application iiiea Apiii s, 1905, Renewed september 29,1906. serial No. 336,805. i

may be readily applied to certain Well-known forms of coat or cloak hangers. The attachment may be made and sold with the hanger or made separately and attached to hangers already in use.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a coat-hanger having my improvements a plied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a similar view o the parts composing one of the skirt-supporting devices detachedy from the hanger.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates a coathanger having a central supportinghook 1, from which the body 2 of the hanger extends laterally in opposite directions, terminating in two elongated loops a a, which are intended to fit within and support a coat or cloak at its shoulders. As the coat or cloakl hanger proper forms no p art of my invention, a further detailed description is unnecessary. My invention is applicable to anyof ythe usual forms of wire hangers having the loops a a at its ends.

In order to make the coat-hanger suitable for supporting a skirt also, I provide apair of Wire rodsv 3 and 4 for each loop of the hanger and a supporting device 5 for each pair of rods adapted to slide thereon. As shown in Fig. 2, the rods of each pair are made with similar downwardly-turned or hooked ends 3a and y4f, adapted to be fastened to the outer end portion of a loop on the hook, and the o posite ends of the rods are bent down- Ward y to form hooksl 3b and 4b. These hooked portions 3b and 4b are bent laterally in opposite directions in 4order that they may be conveniently vfitted around the side bars of a loop near its inner end.

In applying the attachment to the hanger the hooks 3ay and 4a are placed over the outer endportion of the loop and then compressed around the wire of the loop, and the laterallyprojecting hooks 3b and 4b are placed around the side portions of the loop near its inner end and compressed, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to iirmly grip the side portions. The bars 3 and 4 are of similar length and when in position are approximately parallel, and the clip or supportingdevice 5, which engages the garment, may be moved from end.to end of the bars, which both support and guide it. By adjusting the clips or supporting device 5 longitudinally the attachment may be made to support properly skirts of various Widths.

The supporting device or clip 5 Vmay be of any design suitable for engaging the skirt. The device shown, consisting of a wire bent into a V shape, the apex of the device being bent slightly to one side, and having the coiled ends 6, which iit loosely around the guide-bars, is well adapted for the purpose.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A skirt-supporting attachment for coat or cloak hangers of the class having loops at their ends, said attachment consisting of a pair of Wire rods and a garmenthholding device movable upon said rods, each Vof said rods having a hook at one end adapted for attachment to the outer end of a loop on the hanger, and a hook at itsopposite end adaptd for attachment to a side portion of the oop.

2. The combination with a coat or cloak hanger having loops at its ends adapted to iit into the shoulders of a coat or cloak, of a skirt-hanger attachment arranged between the sides of each loop, each attachment consisting of a pair of bars connected to the sides and outer end of the loop, and a supporting device adjustable longitudinally on said bars andadapted to en age and hold a' garment.

In testimony w ereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE F. BLUE.

Witnesses:

FAITH A. BULLARD, FELIX ANsART. 

